Sandra Silva-Enos
Assistant Professor
Education:
Ph.D. - Curriculum and Instruction University of Connecticut
Brief Biography:
Sandra Silva-Enos is an assistant professor of secondary education. She is committed to investigating K-12 school and classroom practices and commitments that create equitable spaces for multilingual students through a lens of Sociocultural Competence, Human Rights, and Social Justice. Sandra has worked alongside teachers to explore teachers’ conceptualizations of the multifaceted complex construct of sociocultural competence. This exploration was a large part of the focus of her dissertation, which was funded by an internal university grant. Additionally, she has been and continues to be a member of a research team working on the Promoting Equitable Bilingualism and Biliteracy Outcomes through a Focus on Sociocultural Competence project, an IRS funded grant. Formally, Sandra was a secondary education English teacher for a little shy of 10 years in Connecticut and credits her former students for inspiriting her passion in creating equitable spaces.
